From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 6 10:18:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B847F15732 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA13766; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:19:09 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199910061819.TAA13766@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ARPs on a bridge To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:19:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199910061702.NAA10711@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Oct 6, 99 12:01:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1450 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I still don't fully understand where, in the picture below, is the "system" which you want to modify and what is instead standard stuff that you cannot touch... > >>From your description this is what i understand: > > > > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+----[ main router ]-- rest of net. > > | > > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+ > > | > > repeat 150 to 900 times | shared frame relay without > > | multicast/broadcast support > > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+ > > each DLCI is modeled as a PTP connection, so the system sees a physical > interface for each channel. The bridge software just sees then as bridged > interfaces. > > the "right" way to do it is to allocate a subnet to each bridge group, as > different bridge groups cant talk at the mac layer by design. Im just > trying to come up with an easy solution to free up addtional IP space so > customers with only 2 address dont have to get a whole subnet. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message